Jobs was more than a "shrewd businessman". Building Pixar over 10 years into one of the top movie studios was not some "shrewd" business decision. Ditto for NeXT, the early Mac, the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad.. It's more accurate to say he was a visionary who took a long term view.
It's only in retrospect that we have the luxury of looking on his track record as smart from a business standpoint. Woz even criticizes the early Mac for losing money. Says Scully saved the company. Which tells you a lot about what separates Woz from Jobs.
Folks like Woz were a big influence on Jobs. So were a bunch of other people. The idea that he just took other peoples' ideas and marketed them is the same old trope. He took the best raw, undeveloped ideas from the billions around him and fit them to together and refined them into something accessible to everyone. VERY FEW people can do that well. He proved he could do it, not just once, but countless times in multiple categories.
It's only in retrospect that we have the luxury of looking on his track record as smart from a business standpoint. Woz even criticizes the early Mac for losing money. Says Scully saved the company. Which tells you a lot about what separates Woz from Jobs.
Folks like Woz were a big influence on Jobs. So were a bunch of other people. The idea that he just took other peoples' ideas and marketed them is the same old trope. He took the best raw, undeveloped ideas from the billions around him and fit them to together and refined them into something accessible to everyone. VERY FEW people can do that well. He proved he could do it, not just once, but countless times in multiple categories.